In 1970s environmental pollution and problems started to increase. For this reasons in our country, environmental legal acts and institutional structuring were started beside environmental educations.
Environmental engineering department is still only under graduate department about environmental disciplines in Turkey.
Sanitary engineering and municipal engineering in universities which are also separated from civil engineering effect to shape of
environmental engineering. Moreover, in public health searches, engineering approach is needed. This is also one of the effect of
shaping Environmental engineering.